In the Shadow of Malcolm X....

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by The Africana Islamic Social Sciences & Humanities Association

May 19–21, 2025 | Museum of Black Civilizations, Dakar

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In official collaboration with the Museum of Black Civilizations in Dakar-Senegal, the Abu Sulayman Center for Global Islamic Studies at George Mason University, and the Black American Muslim Internationalism Project, our working group on Islam and the Black Radical Tradition invites you to join us for a three-day conference that will take place at the Museum in Dakar, Senegal this May.

This conference is part of a multi-year decolonial initiative that aims to center scholarship and institutions in the global South. Our decision to host this conference at the Museum of Black Civilizations in Dakar arises out of our commitment to ensuring the presence of key stakeholders from the African continent, in addition to promoting intellectual engagement outside of hegemonic Western academic spaces.

We have also prioritized the participation of community leaders whose critical perspectives will elucidate the intersections between Islam and the Black radical tradition. As frontline community activists who participated in historic Black freedom struggles, these leaders will offer firsthand insights and enduring lessons for the future, as well as facilitate exchange and deeper understanding across generational and disciplinary divides.

May 19th, 2025 marks the 100th birthday of Malcolm X, an organic intellectual whose life’s work has impacted countless communities across time and space. Unapologetically Black and Muslim, Malcolm X founded two organizations in the wake of his departure from the Nation of Islam in 1964: the first is the Organization of Afro-American Unity, which was envisioned as a diasporic arm of the Organization of African Unity and aimed to mobilize Black people in the global struggle against white supremacy. The second organization was the Muslim Mosque Inc., which was an institutional vehicle for building pan-Islamic solidarity across national and ethno-racial lines.

In this regard, Malcolm’s organizing and political thought reflects the revolutionary potentialities located in the nexus between Islam and the Black radical tradition. Cedric Robinson defines the Black radical tradition as “the continuing development of a collective consciousness informed by the historical struggles for liberation and motivated by the shared sense of obligation to preserve the collective being, the ontological totality.” As a liberatory project rooted in African peoples’ experience of slavery, colonization, and racial capitalism, Muslims have played a central role in the development of the Black radical tradition.

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